Obligatory #Archie

Tunnel Book... On a Train! We're headed to St. Louis, not ancient Xi'an China, but I was touched to receive this 2006 pop-up book as a gift from two of our international Movable Book Society conference attendees!

Almost There... #NewberryLibrary (Case D 9877 .44)

EXTRA, EXTRA! We've got a free issue of Movable Stationery for you, hot off the press! Usually we restrict the readership of this fine quarterly publication to Movable Book Society members for two years, but with our conference this week, we wanted to share! movablebooksociety.org/newsletter/m...

Animated Apian FTW #volvelles

Something Something EQUINOX Something Something SACRO BOSCO #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 4402) #Ratdolt #1485 #Peurbach #Regiomontanus #Equinox

Glorious Indeed! Nice to hear our Captain @rhysiedarby.bsky.social is getting voiceover work! #OFMD #Parrot

So... It's all going according to plan then? #AI #Google theonion.com/google-annou...

Sealed With A... Seal? Goethe's daughter-in-law Ottilie wrote numerous letters to her mother in the 1830s, many of which are now in the #NewberryLibrary. The black wax seal is from a condolence note, and the red is her usual color choice. But what's the green one about?

Tag Yourselves! I'm the "Hatchet of Heresies" wielded by Polish Bishop Stanislaus Hosius against those pesky Reformation sympathies springing up all over! English translation of his treatise published in Antwerp in 1565. #NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

DIY Volvelles!!

Visited an Old Friend in "On Loss and Absence" today @artinstitutechi.bsky.social! #Textiles #HolyShroud #Besançon

Le Sigh

They're The Same Picture.

Flowers and Fabric #NewberryLibrary (Case MS 76)

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Oh, For a Little Lie Down! One of these venerable tomes is unaccustomed to vertical shelving... #Shelfie #NewberryLibrary Sammelband of Johannes Buridan's Aristotelian texts from 1509 to 1518 i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Original Clown Car? Latin Ship of Fools c. 1498 at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 8671) Tag yourself! I'm the one who thinks they know which way the ship should be going!

Endnotes #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 8683)

#Nuntastic www.bbc.com/news/article...

Vanity Publishing, c. 1600?! #NewberryLibrary (Case W 1025 .133)

B-Dazzled? C-hichi? Enjoying those added ornaments inside initials from the Golden Legend either way! #initialia #NewberryLibrary (Case D 9877.44)

So accurate it's almost entirely reusable. Tag yourself in the current national tragedy! (I'm torn between Golden Girls and Fck Everything Here's Some Zebras)

The pediatric DentistTV (tm) in the waiting room is surprisingly on-brand... #TeethGame? #KBSAmerica

Forbidden Fruit? Don't Mind If I Do... #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7594)

GAUCHE* *That the algorithm is hiding this!

Based on this keen visual analysis, we've got several books handwritten by Tilda chez #NewberryLibrary!

Is it time? Lmk if I should import these very important bookish pirates from the hellsite! Stede Bonnet (and friends) as book bindings, a thread... Part Deux! #NewberryLibrary #RenewAsACrew #OurFlagMeansDeath #RenewOFMD #SaveOFMD #ForRhysie

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

New Medieval MiniComics Prize Just Dropped! www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr Psst .... His doctorate is in Art History!

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

Hang In There? 1584 meets 1990s motivation! Belated #caturday #NewberryLibrary, still Case W 1025 .01695.

Sign over on the right (All for One... etc)

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

There will be NO Breasting Boobily on MY Watch... Early modern #Censorship with notes and edits extensively added throughout 1584 Alciato Emblems at #NewberryLibrary (Case W 1025 .01695) @adapalmer.bsky.social 1/?

Put food on the family again

MAGNUM

Hellhole Chicago? Hello #Hellmouth!

My Precious... #NewberryLibrary #binding

Loving this photo of our Chicago Bürgermeister www.spiegel.de/ausland/chic...

Missed A Spot? What IS that flowing horsetail doing there all by its lonesome?

That's MY Sign! (At about 3 seconds in...)

Happy Labor Day from our Mayor...

There's ANOTHER Fruit CSA pickup this week??!

Apparently matching my beverages to my outfits now?* *Also got a lot of sun on my bike ride earlier...

Biking the Drive! Part 1 #BikeTheDrive

A Little Help Here?!! This enormous, awkward praying mantis was already being rescued from a Loop sidewalk by a kind soul when I walked by earlier this week. Then, likely due to its size, it couldn't handle sitting on a leaf? Hope it found some soft dirt on the ground under all this insane foliage!